Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1832)

16 POMPEIAHA.

The first division of this house, which is
separated only by a narrow lane, or vicus,
from the lupanare, has been, by some, taken
for the dwelling of the domestics, and, by
others, as the apartment of the females of
the family, notwithstanding the bad reputa-
tion of the neighbouring house.

After passing the vestibule, or thyroreum,
or divesting it of those Vitruvian names to
which a simple aditus, limen, or entrance
seems to have so little claim, the short pass-
age, by which the interior of the mansion is
accessible from the street, conducts us to the
atrium of the first or most southern of the
three divisions of the house of the Dioscuri.
The tuscanicum, cavsedium, or atrium, with
its compluvium in the centre, presents little
different from what may be observed in the
same apartment of other habitations, except
that it occupies a much larger portion of the
house, measuring forty Neapolitan palms by
thirty-one. The whole is paved with opus
signinum,probably once polished, and having,
in general, a reddish hue, from the pounded
tiles, or pottery, of which, added to frag-
ments of marble, it was composed.